Click-and-hold should work. To issue a goto command for an officer, click-and-hold on the landscape until a line appears. To issue an absorb or follow command, select the officer, then click-and-hold until the flag changes. Select an armour and click-and-hold on the landscape to issue a convert-to-battle cannon order, or click-and-hold on the armour to cycle between load, unload, and neutral orders. That should work. Just make sure that, in control settings, your number of mouse buttons is set to 1.

x2mars wrote:i havn't had any problems with the officers, only the armour. I can't get the darwinians to unload and load effectively. I also have trouble moving armour without turning it into a canon.

I'm sorry that doesn't help much. Part of the problem is probably the low framerates that you are getting. Darwinia seems to confuse click-and-hold with click at low framerates. If you have a cheap USB mouse that you can carry around, I would strongly recommend it -- I, for one, could not imagine playing Darwinia on my my PowerBook without the USB mouse.

x2mars wrote:by the way what is an "absorb" command??

When you research officers to level 4, they are given the absorb command. When you issue an absorb order, officers will round up any nearby DGs, and use them as a sheild. Each DG absorbed will protect the officer from one or two hits. As they take hits, the absorbed souls will break free, and float off. Units that use melee attacks will take damage if they try to attack an officer with absorbed DGs (i.e. spiders, soul destroyers, &c.).

x2mars wrote:thanks very much for the help, i managed to effectively use my armour to kill the ants. cool.

No problem.

x2mars wrote:one more question. is it possible to stop a battle canon from firing? i've clicked on them but i only get a cross hair for aiming. i want to dissable a canon so i don't destroy my other stuff.

Sort of. You can either kill all of the DGs running the cannon, promote them to officers, or select the cannon and [CTRL]-[C] it to destroy it. Other than that, as long as there are enemies nearby, they will fire.

x2mars wrote:ps.. whats a DG?

Heh... DG stands for "Darwinia Guy." It is what the Darwinians were called in the beta before anyone knew what to call them. They arethe little green, flat dudes that make the cannons go.

xander

EDIT: Damn you, trickfred! :P

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